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The first naval attacks by the redcoats were against Guadeloupe in 1691 and 1703.
In 1871 under the Third Republic, Martinique and Guadeloupe were granted representation in the National Assembly in Paris, which they have retained ever since.
No slaves meant almost no sugar production, until the first of some 80,000 Hindus from India and 16,000 free Africans began arriving as contract workers for Guadeloupe and Martinique plantations.
Ironically, the British occupation gave Guadeloupe’s economy a big boost: between 20,000 and 30,000 more slaves were transported in and new cane-grinding windmills built, all of which spurred the sugar trade to unprecedented prosperity.
During the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), the British conquered Guadeloupe and held it for four years.